Ipswich Witches 2026

[kevin bass]

19 hours ago, Baldyman said:

Now i wonder if one of those to run ipswich is an ex aussie rider that has both track curating and promoting experience, that would be handy 

Jason Crump🤔

[old bob at herne bay]

19 hours ago, Fromafar said:

Perhaps the Costs will  come into it.Expensive to watch the same Opponent every couple of meetings.Have to hope meetings are humdingers .!

Another factor is the age profile of speedway supporters. As folks get older they  don’t turn out for every meeting in poor weather to stand outside in often spartan conditions on cold evenings to watch the stop start racing punctuated by all too frequent delays .

With  each passing year, I would suggest there are fewer “hard core” fans who will turn up every meeting . 

[siggysigalos]

I wouldn't read into anything about Woofinden being at Sheffield #justsaying.

But then again, i wouldn't read into any rumours concerning any riders being linked with an Ipswich septet, but convinced more will become much clearer this week.

 

[kevin bass]

9 minutes ago, old bob at herne bay said:

Another factor is the age profile of speedway supporters. As folks get older they  don’t turn out for every meeting in poor weather to stand outside in often spartan conditions on cold evenings to watch the stop start racing punctuated by all too frequent delays .

With  each passing year, I would suggest there are fewer “hard core” fans who will turn up every meeting . 

Exactly this, my elderly parents both now 85 were season ticket holders at Ipswich and Peterborough for yrs plus attended Mildenhall and Lynn fairly regularly and had been going right back from the Norwich speedway days but they haven't attended meeting's probably since Covid, i set them up with BSN and their more then happy to get their speedway fix from the comfort of their own frontroom every wk, i did drag them along to Mildenhall last season but it was just to cold for them tbf.

[norbold]

1 hour ago, old bob at herne bay said:

Another factor is the age profile of speedway supporters. As folks get older they  don’t turn out for every meeting in poor weather to stand outside in often spartan conditions on cold evenings to watch the stop start racing punctuated by all too frequent delays .

With  each passing year, I would suggest there are fewer “hard core” fans who will turn up every meeting . 

That sounds like me. Mind you, the worse "stop start" meetings are the televised ones. I avoid them like the plague! One good by-product of no televised meetings this year!

[IainB]

1 hour ago, norbold said:

That sounds like me. Mind you, the worse "stop start" meetings are the televised ones. I avoid them like the plague! One good by-product of no televised meetings this year!

It's amazing that in 25 years of tv coverage they never ever addressed this... which is an indication that points to the rest of the failures within Speedway. If they couldn't/wouldn't address this, they were never going to fix everything else that needed fixing.

Edited Sunday at 12:25 PM by IainB

[SteveLyric2]

So it seems that Ipswich may field a decent 1-7 after all.😉

[SPEEDY69]

7 hours ago, IainB said:

It's amazing that in 25 years of tv coverage they never ever addressed this... which is an indication that points to the rest of the failures within Speedway. If they couldn't/wouldn't address this, they were never going to fix everything else that needed fixing.

They did though Ian, TV meetings were very drawn out in the Sky days and have been much more pacy since - surprised you can't remember? This is one of the things Mr Morris did improve. Just needed more fan involvement trackside (TV commentary & interviews  over the PA would have been useful) . 

Edited Sunday at 07:16 PM by SPEEDY69

[IainB]

34 minutes ago, SPEEDY69 said:

They did though Ian, TV meetings were very drawn out in the Sky days and have been much more pacy since - surprised you can't remember? This is one of the things Mr Morris did improve. Just needed more fan involvement trackside (TV commentary it interviews  over the PA would have been useful. 

Do you think? I only ever went to the play off televised meetings and they were still very stop start with nothing going on between ad breaks. I suppose Mr Morris did standardise the track grading intervals so it probably seemed more like a non televised meeting even when the cameras were there due to this. 

[SPEEDY69]

Yes. The TV ones at Ipswich last season were not that much different to any other meetings in terms of length and stop/start. Now some people have an issue with the grading breaks 😁

[TTT]

Fill in the gaps job?

19.27 or 20.30 left

 

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3. 

4. K. Rew 6.19

5. T. Brennan 7.05

6. J. Jenkins 4.49 or 3.46

7. J. Edwards (RS)

Edited Sunday at 10:00 PM by TTT

[Baldyman]

2 hours ago, TTT said:

Fill in the gaps job?

19.27 or 20.30 left

 

1.

2.

3. 

4. K. Rew 6.19

5. T. Brennan 7.05

6. J. Jenkins 4.49 or 3.46

7. J. Edwards (RS)

Jenkins looks a risk on 4.49,,and seems a bit injury prone to me 

[PhilTheAce]

Ellis not doing UK I've heard. But I dont know. Maybe his dad can confirm or deny 

Edited yesterday at 08:44 AM by PhilTheAce

[ShanoXtra]

9 hours ago, TTT said:

Fill in the gaps job?

19.27 or 20.30 left

 

1.

2.

3. 

4. K. Rew 6.19

5. T. Brennan 7.05

6. J. Jenkins 4.49 or 3.46

7. J. Edwards (RS)

If I was Ipswich now I’d actually change it up and just go for a younger team, Brennan number one and Rew at number 5. Try to get confirmation all riders would want to stay on a few seasons and get them this season learning and being specialists for the 2027 season. I honestly believe cooper would have come to us if Louis was on board and I would have loved him in the team. Keep Tai away from the team, too many Ipswich fans he has annoyed which would affect their decision to come to any races. 

[PhilTheAce]

10 minutes ago, ShanoXtra said:

If I was Ipswich now I’d actually change it up and just go for a younger team, Brennan number one and Rew at number 5. Try to get confirmation all riders would want to stay on a few seasons and get them this season learning and being specialists for the 2027 season. I honestly believe cooper would have come to us if Louis was on board and I would have loved him in the team. Keep Tai away from the team, too many Ipswich fans he has annoyed which would affect their decision to come to any races. 

Cooper was always at Lynn, Louis or not. 

[Steve Irving]

Ipswich’ is by far the most interesting team building because it’s going to look a lot different to the ones we’re used to seeing. The others will just recycle most of what they’ve had before, Ipswich will probably look like a completely different team.

And the added intrigue is nobody is too sure who is putting the team together. Is it Louis or the new guy? Or both?

[Aries]

25 minutes ago, Steve Irving said:

Ipswich’ is by far the most interesting team building because it’s going to look a lot different to the ones we’re used to seeing. The others will just recycle most of what they’ve had before, Ipswich will probably look like a completely different team.

And the added intrigue is nobody is too sure who is putting the team together. Is it Louis or the new guy? Or both?

Probably Louis I’d have thought. Think some deals were already done early doors so they’ll probably be resurrected if those riders are still available. 
 

Wonder if Vaculik could be tempted? Only has one club in Poland as far as I can see, nothing in Sweden or Denmark and of course, no GP’s now either. Needs more racing than that surely?

[TTT]

2 hours ago, PhilTheAce said:

Ellis not doing UK I've heard. But I dont know. Maybe his dan can confirm or deny 

Already signed up to 3 Leagues so no UK.

[TTT]

24 minutes ago, Aries said:

Probably Louis I’d have thought. Think some deals were already done early doors so they’ll probably be resurrected if those riders are still available. 
 

Wonder if Vaculik could be tempted? Only has one club in Poland as far as I can see, nothing in Sweden or Denmark and of course, no GP’s now either. Needs more racing than that surely?

Vacuilik is riding in Sweden for Vargarna.

Michelsen and Thomsen could be worth testing the waters with though because neither Rider is in the GP's anymore and they're not currently signed up to 3 Leagues.

[Aries]

22 minutes ago, TTT said:

Vacuilik is riding in Sweden for Vargarna.

Michelsen and Thomsen could be worth testing the waters with though because neither Rider is in the GP's anymore and they're not currently signed up to 3 Leagues.

Almost signed him to replace Doyle in 2024. Can’t see it now though and I think it’s going to have to be a totally different strategy to the one we’re used to seeing in recent years.